"I didn't recognize parts of who that guy was," Sheen said of his past year

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Charlie Sheen, whose new show "Anger Management" is set to premiere on FX in June, told Matt Lauer on the "Today" show Thursday that he's sorry for his "cringeable" behavior last year.

Charlie Sheen is determined not to let last year's "meltdown" — his word — prevent a comeback.

"I couldn't have the 'Two and a Half [Men]' thing be my television legacy. I couldn't have it end on that note," he told Matt Lauer on "Today" Thursday, before he began discussing his new sitcom "Anger Management."

"If this is gonna be the swansong, it's gotta be a beautiful experience," he insisted.

That's not to say the small screen's erstwhile loose cannon isn't admitting to and apologizing for his disastrous 2011, which saw him feuding with and fired from the hit sitcom "Two and a Half Men" amid his spiraling substance abuse problems.

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"It was a little cringeable, because I didn't recognize parts of who that guy was," he confessed to Lauer, in between chuckles at his own muttered jokes.

"is it weird to have looked back and experienced what seems like an out of body experience?" Lauer asked.